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r» 333 \ . Christ of the Andco South Amerian dab women Ire coming nobly to the front. Buenos Ayres boasu ol twenty-seven associations of women. Just 'now interespntlufs around Senora Angela de- Olivier: dc Cosh, 9miâ€" dcm of the Christian Mothen’ Association of tin; Colicge of Lachordaire. Through her efloru The uuuu wagon roaas must be built jusg as good railroads are built?" There must be, uniformity of meth’od and 0f material throughout; there must be uniformity of supervision and one standard of ex- ccllcnce for every foot of road constructed. And as all are beneficiaries of the wagon road, all. should share in the ex‘pense of its proper building. Thus the present movement for good roads comes from the city as well. as from the countryâ€"4n fact, the city appears to be the more insistent of the two in its demand for the needed improvement. The question of state aid. therefore, enters into the prob~ lem in the building of roads. involving the abolition of the present wasteful and inefficient township sys- temof road-making. . Good wagon roads must be built just as good railroads are built?“ There must be, uniformity of meth'od and bi material throughom: than m... k. such a highway. It ins slowly but surely dawned upon the minds of thinking people that it is the wagon road tint. immdmmandgdn‘arfies nearly-ll of the commerce and trait: of the country. We have-spent many hundreds of millions of dollars in improving rivers, la“: and bitten, ind inmlbsi- dising nifl'iio’d ‘ixi‘d'fimffies, and have wholly forgotten the fact that but for the ham“. mam- W Pdce 31.50 1 Yea. 5 Cemn die Good Roads The repott of the Illinois Good Roads Commis- sion. recently made to the legislature, contain: these signéticant antennas: Eighland Park News-Letter Wmmyauw mm“ SATURDAY, MARCH id 'a‘ni‘d‘ giaaiiifi‘fn}; and have wholly he fact that but for the humble wagon would he tittk me for cities. railroads. 25’ 1”; cities, railroads, , inc. _ In we fall of 1862 ’there was a war. meetin’fi the towfl-hall, and Elijah Curler made a speech prgin' ’ the men folks to come forward ahd contribute their servicesâ€" their lives, if need be,--to the cause of freedom and right. We, were all keyed up with excitement, for next to Wendell Phillipe and Henry Ward, Beecher, I gueSs that Elijah Cutler In; the greatest orator that ever lived. While we were The habit grew on him as he grew older. A350. ciating with Conky for fifteen or twenty minutes wasn’t much difierent from readifl' the Bibie for a couple of dais, except that these want my man- an! labor about it. I guess he’fi have Been a min- isler if the war hadnt come alohg and spoiled it all. ' Then he’d say: 'onhn..XXI:3.”“' ,That- would be all he’d say, and that would be enough; for it gave us to understand that he. was goin' affishin’. Conky never made“ a mistake; his quotations were always right. ‘ ' o ‘ uanxy was always hearty and cheery; we all felt good when he was found. We neirer minded the “my be. had of ‘ quotin' things from the Bible. It was like this: Conky, we’ll say, would be goin’ down the-road, and I’d come-out of the house and holler: “Hello, there, Conky! where 'be you goin’?” - the who]; Bible by heart, and most book, too, although, as I have said, his specialty. HIGHLAND PARK NEW$~LE Cohkey Stiles , Eugm Field. 5 near as I could find out, nobody ever knew A how Conky Stiles tame to know as much of the Bible as he did. Thirty years ago people as a class'v’v'erehmuch better acquainted with the Bible than folks are nowadays, and there wasn‘t another one of 'em in the whole Connecticut valley, from the Canada line to the Sound, that could stand up ’long~ side of Conky Stiles and quote Scripture. ’ Well, he knew the whole thing by heart,â€"-frorn Genesis, chap-‘ ter first, to the Amen at the 'errd-of‘the Revelation .of St. John the Divine; that's the whole bésiness in a nutshell! - , . _ AHis name Wasn’t Conlry; we called him Conky for short. His real mate was Silas Stiles, but one tinie at a Sunday School Convention, .Mr. Hubbell, the minister, spoke of him as‘ a “veritable concordance of Holy Scriptures,” but bimehy that name got whittled down to “ Conky,” and the“ Conley“ stuck to him all the rest of his life. * _ ‘ When Conky. was eight years old he got the prize at our Sunday School for having committed to memory the most Bible verses in the year, and that same spring he got up and. recited every line of Acts of Apostles without having to be prompted once. By the time he was .twelve vears old he Imam History um that for seventy years Chili and Argentina Ind quamliu. over their hound“! lines Ind finally 'ded to noon to war. Gm! preparations were made. Then. yielding to com- sel. the damn-ism decided to tetfi the difio culty hy-athnmim and devote the mom, intended for war to internal in'lptovements and roadniakin‘. and to erecting on the disputed vboundgty. upon feet above the as level. a statue of Christ limb hon! the metal of old cannon. This statue. modeled under the direction' of the Christian Mothers, is ulled “The Christ of the Andes." statue of. Christ of the Andes was erectad on tho boundary bqween Chili and Argentina :1 the con- clusion of pace between those two counttieg. She pctsomlly nddreued the two executing. sad as a rcwud of succeu the pay issued a not! 0! honor totheSocietyofChriniu Mother-“051i!!! Win men Magi-R'MWM' in W peace between {he countries. *“ Simon pm saith 'umo them, was always Hearty and cheery twelve years old he khew s; of the hymn L the Bible was L, I 3'0 g-fiah- "“ Saluté the Lord." “I have taught". good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith!” ‘ ' __‘, . _...â€".--\.u w llLl‘u we boys had stood and 3tood~and stoodâ€"only to be repulsed at last. Blueooats and graycoats lay side by side and over against one another in the reconciling peace of death. Occasionally; a maimed body, containing just a remnant of life, was found, and one of these crippled bodies was what was left of Conky. ' - ’ ' v, . â€"â€"-â€".oo sympathy and love and boge, and I hear Conlty Stiles’ voice again speaking comfort and cheer to all about him; ‘We all loved him; he stood next to Mr. Lincoln and Genera McClellan in the heart of everybody in the regiment. They-sent a mm from our fawn, one Thanksgiving time, to bring a lot of good things, and to see how soon we were going to capture Rich- mond. Mr. Hubbell, the minister, was one of them. Deacon Cooley was another. There was tall: at one time that Conlry had a soft spot in his heart for the 'deacon’s eldest girl, Tryphena, but I always allowed that he paid as much attention to the other daughter, Trypboaa, as he did to her elder sister, and I guess he hadn’t any more hankering for one than he had ,for the other, for when the commit? tee come to go,home, Conity. says to Deacon Cooley: “Well, soodty. Deacon." ' he says. ..‘f.Romana XVIna.” V V . ‘ The histories don’t say anything about the skirmish we had with the rebels at Churchill’s Bridge, along in May of ’64, but we boys who were there remember it as the toughest fight in all our ex- perience. They were just desperate, the Confeda erates were, ands-Well, we were mighty glad that the night came, for a ,soldier ean retreat in the dark with fewer chances of interruption. Out of ourâ€" company of one hundred ind fifty, only sixty were left. You can judge from that of what the fighting was at Churchill’s Bridge. When, they called the roll in camp next day, Conley Stiles wasn’t there. Had we left him dead at the bridge," or was he wounded, dying the more awful, death of hunger, thirst and neglect? ' _ - 1 One said, “Let’s go back for Conkyl’” . A detachment of cavalry went out to reconnoiter. Only the ruins of the precedingday remained where _, ‘77.. â€"â€"-â€"- â€"-â€"u via-m, III the midst of fever and sufl'erin' and window: and dam; I see a homely. amen face, ndiant with sympathy and love and liege, sad I hear Cocky Stiles’ voice min speaking comfort 1nd cheer to _II -L, A I W. van cm. was a long (pea Then um a heap of sickness Imong. the boys, 10:: we weren't used to the climate, and ms: of us pined for the , ~~-vâ€"'â€" wvâ€"vâ€"u In "I III II" uniform. Cock-y Stilts. ”flier a civilian, all Il- wayg a livin', walkin‘ encyclip'edy of the Bible, I human mpendiuu; of palms and proved: and texts and I had th'at confidence in him that I’d have bet he wrote the Minimal! if I hadn't known he!- terand tpthecomrary. __ . 1’1""!!! mdwnmp for hSfiksrounoand: smil waitin’_f0r M to lend ofi, Con. to up and an: “1. 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